New Gmail feature: avoiding “sent on behalf of” with Gmail

I love Gmail. Living without the bloat of Outlook is perhaps the most productive improvement I've made in the last twelve months, but one niggle remained – "sent on behalf of".[more]

When you have a gmail account, for example "bob123@gmail.com", but use it to send an email from a domain specific email, such as "bob.smith@thewidgetcompany.com" the recipient will see (in some clients, including Outlook) that the email came from "bob.smith@thewidgetcompany.com sent on behalf of bob123@gmail.com" which isn't terribly professional.

I realise this is part of the official email specification, but it isn't optional and it's just so clunky. I want to make sure my clients know my email address as "bob.smith@thewidgetcompany.com" and not my private gmail address.

Until recently there was no way around this, but Google recently added the ability to send gmail mail through a specific SMTP server per email alias. Problem solved:

Log into gmail

Click on Settings

Click on Accounts

At the end of your list of email aliases click "edit info"

A pop-up wizard will appear titled "Edit email address"

Click Next Step until you get to the page entitled "Send mail through your SMTP server?"

Choose the second option: "send through thewidgetcompany.com SMTP servers"

Specify the correct details for your own SMTP server, in the usual way (see picture below)